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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Akshun Kalia M.B.B.S.[2]
Overview
Pituitary apoplexy was first discovered by Pearce Bailey in the year 1898. In the year 1905, Leopold Bleibtreu recorded the postmortem examination of a 21-year-old acromegalic patient, in whom he discovered that the pituitary gland had been replaced by an old hemorrhage. The term pituitary apoplexy was coined by Brougham, Heusner and Adams in the year 1950.
Historical perspective
- In 1898, Pearce Bailey, an American neurologist discovered pituitary apoplexy for the first time.
- In 1905, Leopold Bleibtreu, a German physicist performed the first postmortem examination on a patient with pituitary apoplexy.
- In 1925, first surgery for pituitary apoplexy was performed.
- In 1950, Brougham, Heusner and Adams from Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School coined the term pituitary apoplexy.[1]
References
- ↑ BROUGHAM M, HEUSNER AP, ADAMS RD (1950). "Acute degenerative changes in adenomas of the pituitary body--with special reference to pituitary apoplexy". J. Neurosurg. 7 (5): 421–39. doi:10.3171/jns.1950.7.5.0421. PMID 14774761.